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Everything in me says "RUN" but the world holds up a hand tells me to wait, to breathe, to stay exactly where I am. And I hate it. Not because I don't understand, but because stopping means thinking.. Means hearing every though I've tired to "outrun" every feeling I buried under movement. The red light glows like it knows something I don't.. So I sit here engine quite now, heart louder than ever, wondering If this pause is protection or punishment. –––xx10m
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Apr 29
Apr 29, 2026 at 10:23 AM UTC
Road Signs: Red Light
Everything in me says "RUN" but the world holds up a hand tells me to wait, to breathe, to stay exactly where I am. And I hate it. Not because I don't understand, but because stopping means thinking.. Means hearing every though I've tired to "outrun" every feeling I buried under movement. The red light glows like it knows something I don't.. So I sit here engine quite now, heart louder than ever, wondering If this pause is protection or punishment. –––xx10m
Part two of the series of "Road Signs"
xx10m
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Apr 29
Apr 29, 2026 at 10:23 AM UTC
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